Enemies:
The Jackal and his
fellow terrorists, Colonel
Razir of Trafia, the Revolutionary Jihad,
Saracen

Known Relatives: Unnamed parents (deceased)

Aliases: Privately nicknamed "Wild
Rose" by the Punisher;
no others known, although she has presumably used
many aliases in her espionage work

Base of Operations: Mobile;
presumably based in Israel

First Appearance: Punisher II#7 (March 1988)

Powers/Abilities:
Rose is a highly skilled spy and an excellent fighter, equally skilled in hand-to-hand combat
and in the use of handguns, crossbows, machine guns, and knives. She is also an
accomplished computer hacker.

History:
(Punisher II#7/Punisher: Empty Quarter (
fb) - BTS) - Rose Kugel was born
in a Palestinian refugee camp, although she is also an Israeli citizen.
Her parents allegedly died in a terrorist
bombing incident in Israel when she was 16 years old, and she has implied that
it was this tragedy that motivated her to enter the espionage field in order to
work against terrorist movements. The
circumstances under which she joined the Mossad are
unrevealed.

(Punisher II#7 (fb) - BTS)- In the
course of a mission against the terrorist Revolutionary Jihad, Rose tracked one
terrorist, Yasir, to an encounter with the Punisher;
she then invaded the Punisher's base by drilling a hole from the sewer into his
basement.

(Punisher II#7) - Rose introduced herself to the Punisher and
offered to work with him against the Jihad.
They learned from an informant that the Jihad planned to use a plutonium
bomb against Gallagher Plaza and a nearby theater.
They arrived at the plaza, where Rose killed
one of the guards. The Punisher took
down his earlier target Yasir, but Rose was captured
by another terrorist, Ahmad, atop a construction crane.
When Ahmad took aim at the Punisher, Rose shot
at the terrorist, who retaliated by throwing her from the crane.
The Punisher then killed Ahmad.

(Punisher II#48 (
fb) - BTS/Punisher II#7 (BTS)) - Unknown to the Punisher,
Rose's fall was broken by a pile of sand, leaving her bruised, but alive.
She departed the scene, allowing him to believe
her dead. The Punisher's
subsequent investigation revealed that Rose had invaded the National Crime
Council to plant her credentials; the Mossad denied
any involvement with her, and there was no record of her Israeli citizenship.

(Punisher II#48 (fb) - BTS) - When the
Punisher killed a Mossad agent in pursuit of
ammunitions scientist Dr. Morris Brattle, Rose went undercover in the Middle
Eastern nation of Trafia, to which Brattle had sold a
specialized form of heavy weaponry, the Brattle Gun, which the
Mossad feared might be used against Israel; she cooperated
in this endeavor with the freelance operative Saracen (an enemy of the
Punisher), who was at the time acting as a double agent for the interests of
Trafia's neighbor Zukistan while
holding the title of Trafia's head of security.
Posing as a scullery maid, Rose received
secrets from a second spy, Pasha Shakbander, and
intended to sabotage Trafia's gun.
However, both she and Shakbander
were discovered and imprisoned.

(Punisher II#47) - Colonel Razir and the
visiting Brattle observed Rose and Shakbander in
prison, shortly before learning that the Punisher had entered
Trafia in an effort to investigate the activities of
Razir and Saracen.

(Punisher II#48) - When the Punisher's ally Microchip led
Zukistani forces in an invasion to seize the gun, Rose
escaped and encountered the Punisher.
Although the Punisher intended to kill Saracen, Rose informed him that
Saracen was serving Zukistani interests and that her
target was actually Brattle. When the
Punisher and Saracen confronted each other in battle, Rose departed the scene
and later held Colonel Razir at gunpoint, presumably
killing him shortly thereafter. The
Punisher killed Brattle some time later.

(Punisher: Empty Quarter (
fb) - BTS) After Israeli intelligence learned of an abandoned
arsenal in the Saudi Arabian desert, to be used as a site for the First World
International Terrorist Convention, Rose was sent undercover to infiltrate the
defenses of the Convention's organizer, a terrorist called the Jackal.
Acting as a courtesan, Rose awaited the
arrival of a second agent who was using the cover identity of Rolf
Ganzi of the Serbian Nationalist Movement; however, "
Ganzi" died when thrown from his camel en route to the
Convention.

(Punisher: Empty Quarter) -
Disguised as his enemy Saracen, the Punisher attended the Convention and
ingratiated himself with the Jackal. The
Jackal offered him the "hospitality" of either a courtesan (Rose), a young boy,
or a goat; the Punisher chose the first, and when they were alone, Rose revealed
her identity to him. After (apparently) a
brief romantic interlude, the pair worked together to disable their guard and
set a bomb at the arsenal, fleeing from the explosion on rocket packs. However, they were confronted by
the recently arrived Saracen, who briefly held Rose at swordpoint,
then engaged the Punisher in battle while Rose fled to find transportation.
After the Punisher killed Saracen, Rose returned with a jeep, and the two drove
off together, intending to join a Humans Off Planet caravan to Qatar and whiling
away the time with idle talk of a future together.
As far as is known, the two have not met since.